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As an editor, I have to be tactful, of course. -- Robert Gottlieb
Sometimes I can be tactful and sometimes not. It all depends on the mood I'm in. -- Melanie Brown
The best of merchandise will go back to the shelf unless handled by a conscientious, tactful salesman. -- James Cash Penney
To be meek, patient, tactful, modest, honorable, brave, is not to be either manly or womanly; it is to be humane. -- Jane Harrison
I say what I feel. I try to be tactful, but I can't not say what I feel. I have a really big problem with that. -- Sherilyn Fenn
In a poem, the words happen; they just come. I let them. Otherwise, I wouldn't write. To interfere with what is happening is to distort the poem. Just a very small degree of intelligence and supervision is necessary. Very tactful. Any revision later that violates the text as it came, that begins rewriting the words, is fake. -- Louis Dudek
Everybody admires a go-getter if he is tactful. -- Earl Tupper
Talk about tactful - she's got a tongue like a Kalashnikov! -- Steve Fowler
You are so tactful that I have no idea what you want. -- Mason Cooley
A tactful man can pull the stinger from a bee without getting stung. -- George Horace Lorimer
Whenever your well-being feels at risk around certain people, make a tactful and swift exit. -- Judith Orloff
Intelligent and alert, wistful but enthusiastic, frank yet tactful, assured without conceit and tender without sentimentality. -- Cecil Beaton
No. I don't have the patience, and I'm not very tactful. People say I can be frightening. -- Zaha Hadid
Be sure, when you think you are being extremely tactful, that you are not in reality running away from something you ought to face. -- Frank Medlicott
Do you have any Greek in you? That was just a tactful way of asking if you're pregnant. If you're not, then let's break up. -- Demetri Martin
The worst of having so much tact was that you never quite knew whether other people were acting naturally or being tactful too. [The human element] -- W. Somerset Maugham
I'm honest. I say what I feel. I try to be tactful, but I can't not say what I feel. I have a really big problem with that. -- Sherilyn Fenn
Chi-Os were ideal partners for all occasions. They were discrete, desirable, tactful, polite, and fun... Every mom dreamed of her son coming home with a Chi Omega, a woman's woman. -- David Letterman
It is not good to want a thing too much. It sometimes drives the luck away. You must want it just enough, and you must be very tactful with Gods or the gods. -- John Steinbeck

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